Revista gaúcha de enfermagem / EENFUFRGS
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This study conducted a systematic review of the literature with the objective of describing the effect of working in shifts on workers' health. The descriptors used were: "occupational risk", "occupational health", and "shift work", all of which were provided by on-line publications from 2000 to 2007. ⋯ The research focused on cardiovascular changes (24.4%), quality of sleep and alertness (17.7%), metabolic changes (13.3), among others. Some papers did not identify a connection between changes in the workers' health and shift work.
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Pain is one of the main complaints at admission in emergency services. This article aims at presenting pain assessment methods in trauma patients using objective tools in pre- and intra-hospital settings. The harmful effects of pain in the post-trauma patients, and the benefits of early analgesia are discussed. We found that acute pain in emergency wards is rarely studied in Brazil, which points out a significant gap in terms of care and research.
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This quantitative study proposed to apply Activity-Based Management in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a teaching hospital Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The objective of applying that tool was to direct the establishment of strategies, aiming at reducing costs and optimizing human, technological, and financial resources used in intensive care. ⋯ Data were collected in sir collective interviews with 13 ICU team members. The results showed that Activity-Based Management can be used in an ICU, replicated, and that understanding the care process helps to provide information that aid the management to make decision, to identify the need of improvement, and to include the team members in the ICU management practice.
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This study was aimed at analyzing available evidence on volatile anesthetics administration, and nursing diagnosis of nausea in the immediate postoperative period. It was based on a literature revision in the following data bases: Latin American and Caribbean Literature in the Health Sciences (Lilacs), PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (Cinahl), and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR). ⋯ Volatile anesthetics administration during the postoperative period is a factor related to nausea and vomiting, according to two studies with evidence level II, two with evidence level IV one with evidence level VI and four literature revisions. The results suggest that there is a connection between volatile anesthetics, nausea and vomiting.
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Comparative Study
[Association between newborn vitality and type of delivery].
The objective of this study was to associate the Apgar score at the first and the fifth minutes of life among neonates born by normal vaginal delivery and by Cesarean section. The population of the study comprised 150 term neonates, 75 of whom were born by normal vaginal delivery and 75 by C-section. ⋯ This was observed in the lower Apgar score during the first minute of life, showing a significant diftfrence (P = 0.004) in the deliveries by C-section. In term neonates the weight was not related to a variation in vitality when associated to the type of delivery.